SVT Project

The UNH Silicon Vertex Tracker Project

The UNH Nuclear Physics group will be building a test facility for the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) for CLAS12. The current plan is for the SVT to be build up of 4 concentric layers. Each layer will provide x and y information from two silicon strip detectors, each detector with a different "pitch" for the strips. A scattered particle will thus go through 8 layers of silicon plus the support backing and the detector will provide 4 x,y,z points to compute a track.

Previous work performed at Jlab:

• Status: 2006
  • CLAS-NOTE-2006-010 SVT R&D Progress Report.
  • CLAS-NOTE-2006-013 Simulation of the SVX4 ASICs' Performance
  • CLAS-NOTE-2006-014 Specifications for the Hall B Silicon Vertex Tracker's Prototype Module
  • CLAS-NOTE-2006-021 Two Possible Configurations of the Silicon Vertex Tracker
  • CLAS-NOTE-2006-024 Dead Time Due to the Frequency of Reset and Restore Operations of the SVX4 ASICs
• Status: 2007
  • Laser Test Stand Report FY 07.

A completing solution for tracking in the inner detector is the 'micromegas detector', see: CLAS-NOTE-2007-004